Artificial Intelligence Industry News

AI Business Weekly - July 2, 2026: The $49 Billion Bet and the Rehiring Wave Nobody Wants to Admit To

Four stories showing how AI capital keeps compounding at the top while the labor market quietly discovers automation can't yet do it all

AI Microdrama Platform Shortical Lands $100 Million From PVX Partners to Fuel Global Expansion

Companies That Laid Off Workers for AI Are Quietly Rehiring Them, New Data Shows

Meta Is Quietly Building a Cloud Business to Sell Its Excess AI Compute, Bloomberg Reports

Abu Dhabi's MGX Closes $49 Billion AI Fund as OpenAI and Anthropic Backer Doubles Down on the Boom

AI Business Weekly - June 30, 2026: AI Found the Bug. Then Apple Had to Fix It.

Four stories revealing how Anthropic's AI exposed an Apple exploit, why Ford had to rehire the humans it replaced, how Canadian startups are building the data layer for robots, and how a viral hardware moment turned into $27M in revenue

Pocket Raises $11 Million From Accel After Shipping 35,000 AI Conversation Capture Devices and Reaching $27 Million ARR

Canadian Startup Mecka AI Acquires Vancouver's Docula to Process Petabytes of Human Motion Data for Robot Training

Ford Rehired 350 Engineers After Its AI Quality Systems Failed - Then Won JD Power's Top Mainstream Brand for the First Time in 16 Years

Apple Releases iOS 26.5.2 Early After Anthropic's Mythos AI Exposed a macOS Privilege Escalation Exploit in Five Days